Families

According to most relationship books, the key to a solid marriage
is communication, communication, communication. Phooey, says John Gottman,
Ph.D., author of the much-lauded
Why
Marriages Succeed or Fail. There's much more to a solid, "emotionally
intelligent" marriage than sharing every feeling and thought, he points
out--though most couples therapists ineffectively (and expensively) harp
on these concepts.

Giving
the Love That Heals : A Guide for
Parents Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths
to healthy, loving relationships in his New York Times bestsellers
Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now,
with his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, he brings us to a new understanding
of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own
development as they encourage emotional wholeness in their children.

This groundbreaking book offers a unique opportunity for personal
transformation: by resolving issues that originated in our own childhood,
we can achieve a conscious, and thus healthier, relationship with our children,
regardless of their age. Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt help us
explore:

Don't
Sweat the Small Stuff With Your Family : Simple Ways to Keep Daily
Responsibilities and Household Chaos from Taking over Your
Life "While it's easy to allow little things to
take over our lives, there are things we can do to make life around the house
less stressful," writes Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household
Chores from Taking Over Your Life. In this collection of 98 brief essays,
Carlson (author of
Don't
Sweat the Small Stuff ... And It's All Small Stuff) meditates on
small, but meaningful ways to avoid being overwhelmed by life, particularly
family life. From Number 8: Make Peace with Bickering, to Number 14: Encourage
Boredom in Your Children, to Number 72: Stop Exaggerating Your Workload,
Carlson's messages serve as reminders for truisms most readers already know
but have lost sight of in the bustle of daily life. Carlson's "ways" may
be simple, but simplicity is not stupid--his book offers vital injections
of wisdom. --Ericka Lutz

Whenever Pipher strays from her expertise
as a family therapist, she comes a cropper because her memories of history
and literature can be ludicrously faulty. Fortunately, after the first chapter,
she sticks to what she knows to movingly advocate an up-to-the-minute
cause--reviving American families. She sees current American culture as toxic
to families because of its emphasis on consumerist autonomy at the expense
of the cooperative interrelationship that families require.

Attachment
Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young
Child"Attachment to and dependency on parents... is a normal, healthy aspect
of childhood and not something that needs to be discouraged." This quote
from Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young
Child sums up the attitude behind the growing shift in many Western cultures
toward a labor-intensive but arguably more rewarding, effective, and "natural"
way to raise children. This philosophy, termed "Attachment Parenting" by
its champion, pediatrician and father of eight Dr. William Sears (author
of the popular child-care manual
The
Baby Book, among others), sees infants not as manipulative adversaries
who must be "trained" to eat, sleep, and play when told, but as dependent
yet autonomous human beings whose wants and needs are intelligible to the
parent willing to listen, and who deserve to be responded to in a reasonable
and sensitive manner

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